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Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism
From: Andrew Bangs <andrewb () demon net>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 19:54:27 +0100 (BST)
I am seeking a mechanism for reliable delivery of large blobs through a network of occasionally-connected hosts that can forward the blobs using available transport protocols. I can't find it, though. Most of the networking materials I can find deal more with immediate-transmission networks, where the destination host is reachable at the instant that the source host transmits. (This isn't a catenet.)
You could take a look at how networks of IRC servers or Usenet servers manage to remain connected or manage to push articles around even when large chunks of intermediate networks fail, or you could use some fancy mail routeing system and treat your blobs as email. Do the blobs have specific destinations (think Email), and even if they do is it acceptable for the blobs to also be delivered to every other host on your network (think Usenet) ? (In other words, you might need to look a couple of layers up from the network layer to get a good result on this one.) Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Bangs, Network Architecture, ScottishTelecom andrewb () demon net
Current thread:
- Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Mark R. Lindsey (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Andrew Brown (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Andrew Bangs (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Faust (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Edward S. Marshall (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Forrest W. Christian (Aug 05)
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- RE: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Mohler, Jeff (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Sean Donelan (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Vadim Antonov (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Steve Uurtamo (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Peter Galbavy (Aug 05)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Steve Uurtamo (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Mark R. Lindsey (Aug 04)
- Re: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism Andrew Brown (Aug 04)